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Zach Bivens

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  • Joined Oct ’11
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Bio: I have been playing pokemon for almost 3 years now. Thanks to pokemon I have traveled to many different states that I may have never visited otherwise. Currently I have 53 Championship Points with a rating of 1896 putting me at #10 in NA Masters.
Aside from all things pokemon related I also enjoy Poker, Video Games, Basketball, and spending as much time as possible with family and friends.

A brief list of my accomplishments:
8× 1st Br, 3× 1st cities, 4th states ’12, top 16 Regionals’10, 3rd Regionals ’11, 8th regionals ’11, 4th regionals’12

Zapping the Don

A Case Study on Countering the Meta “Tackling this year’s City Championship metagame proved to be a particularly daunting task in comparison to previous years because I actually had to go back and read most of the cards from all sets released after Plasma Blast due to my absence from the game. For the first three tournaments I decided I would keep it simple to get a feel for the game once again. At Cities number one I played a Donphan deck for the first time, wrecking my way to the finals where I lost to Jake Dudzig in a mirror match. Donphan decks managed to claim…
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Often found in gardens, this Pokémon has hairs on its body that it uses to assess its surroundings. (Blipbug)
It attacks with rapid beats of its stick. As it strikes with amazing speed, it gets more and more pumped. (Grookey)
It spends its entire life inside an apple. It hides from its natural enemies, bird Pokémon, by pretending it’s just an apple and nothing more. (Applin)